Tourisme Culture Cereste Prieuré de Carluc

Priory of Carluc

Between Cereste and Reillanne (Alpes de Haute Provence)
Former Carolingian monastery and romance, as evidenced by written documentation from the eleventh century, but certainly older, this abbey experienced a significant influence until the early fourteenth: fifteen priories were then under his addiction.
"Clinging to a rocky cliff and wooded valley overlooking a cool and shady in the heart of a region rich in history, Carluc is located in an amazing place, not to say strange and full of mystery, a site where nature and the works of men are intimately involved. "(Gallimard guide Haute-Provence)
Today, the only preserved church is part a testimony which gives a good idea of the typical architecture of priories Provence. A magical place to visit for its historical value as for the serene and mystical beauty that emerges.
This mecca of spiritual life seems to exist for over 2000 years and could be a druidic site due to the presence of a source that never dries up and a large stone had served as an altar of sacrifice. He saw the installation of the precursors of Christianity (IV). These hermits who lived as hermits began to spread the new religion in Haute-Provence, and many converts were buried near the site of local Saints (presence of numerous anthropomorphic graves).
After the barbarian invasions, a bull of Pope Leo VIII in 964 donation was "abandoned monastery in Cluny Abbey Montmajour causing the renaissance of the place and creating a stage for many pilgrims to Compostela.
In the seventeenth, the new site will be abandoned and occupied by a farmer who set up his stall in the chapel.
The strange this gallery site is excavated in the rock using cloister and many rock tombs carved into the rock, and other facilities serving both as habitat burial